Bella POV
After packing all of our stuff in a rush Edward and I left the hotel. Edward sped to the castle. We got stuck in traffic and all I wanted to do was jump out of the car and run to the castle. How dare Athenadora hit Cassie! I'm going to kill her if my parents haven't already. When we got out of traffic a whole other hour had gone by. Edward started to speed again weaving in and out of the lanes. The usual eleven hour drive was eight hours. Still that was a lot and anything could happen in those eight hours. We ran inside the castle no one stopping us. I barged into the throne room. Everyone was yelling at Athenadora. Before anyone could do anything I had her. I threw her to the wall and she fell down. Everyone was silent.
"How dare you lay a hand on my daughter?" I yelled at her. She glared at me and tried to tackle me, but I slapped her in the face. "Don't come near any of my children ever again. I won't hesitate to kill you." I seethed and kicked her. I heard something fall upstairs.
"Its Cassie she keeps falling off the bed. We put railings on it, but they're no use. She's running away from her nightmares. She's in your room" Jasper stated. I ran out of the room and heard crying as I got closer to my room.
"Shh, Cassie it's okay. Let it out, you need to let it out," I heard Rose say, and then I heard someone throwing up. "Its okay, it's okay. Ang get Carlisle." I saw Angela walk out of the room. She hugged me.
"Go to your daughter," she said. Then left and I went to my room. I walked towards my bathroom and saw Cassie leaning over the toilet. She was crying and she wasn't throwing up anymore. Rosalie was rubbing her back. Rose saw me and smiled sadly. I walked towards Cassie and knelt on the floor next to her.
"Hey, its okay if you need to, let it out," I said. She turned to me and apologized. I took her in my arms and hugged her. "You have nothing to be sorry about sweetie." I kissed her forehead and she was burning up. I heard Carlisle come in and rush to the bathroom. He took her temperature.
"We need to get her downstairs. She's heating up," Carlisle said. Cassie turned around and heaved into the toilet again. This time there was blood in it though. I carried her quickly and walked out following Carlisle. I placed her on the bed and he took her temperature. He didn't like it at all. Her temperature was one hundred and fifteen degrees. A human would be on their death bed. I put her on the hospital bed and kissed her forehead as Carlisle went to work.
Carlisle set up an IV and had me change Cassie into shorts and a tank top. She was s hot that I decided to stay in the bed with her. I heard more arguing coming from the living room and Caius yelled even furiously at Athenadora again. I knew and she knew as well that she was in deep shit. Cassie had just started to make progress from the outside she looked fine but from the inside she was fighting a war in her head. One side telling her that everything was okay and the other telling her that nothing was okay and that she should be cautious about everything. I didn't need to be a psychologist to know which side was winning. Cassie snuggled closer to me and laid her head on my hand. I rubbed her back and she started to fall asleep on my shoulder. Edward was on the other side of the bed humming my lullaby to her.
Carlisle same in five hours after Cassie fell asleep to give her more medicine. There wasn't any more yelling, but that was because Athenadora was in the dungeon cells. I don't know what her punishment is, but I know as does everyone else that I don't actually want to know what it is. I held Cassie closer to me, but I couldn't tell if her temperature had gone up or actually got higher. Carlisle told me that she would have to stay in the room for a while. I didn't like it seeing as she had just gotten out of having to some back down here for checkups. Edward left the room to speak with the family for a moment and Lukas, came in with Remy. They both looked at Cassie and Lukas punched the wall actually hurting himself for once. He didn't care about his hand breaking though. He didn't even notice the pain. He and Remy both lay down on the bed.
Carlisle came back in and noticed Lukas's hand. He immediately went to fixing it. Lukas was asleep and it's not like he cared anyways. The kids woke up and found Cassie was still asleep. I knew it disappointed them a bit. They left to take showers and changed. Carlisle didn't want them in the room though. He was afraid they might get sick as well. So only vampires are allowed to come in. I actually left the room and took a shower as well an hour after the kids left. I didn't want to leave Cassie alone because I knew she'd freak if I wasn't there when she woke up. I came back into the room as I could once I was done with everything. Now I was here in her room just holding her hand. I saw her move again, and again and again. She was finally facing me. Her eyes opened a little.
"Mom," she croaked out and I nodded. "I'm sorry, I'm so stupid, you shouldn't be here you're supposed to be on vacation. I'm just…ugh I'm such a fucking idiot!" she yelled at herself.
"Hey, Hey!" I yelled getting her attention, "you are not stupid or an idiot okay. Do you think I'd rather be on vacation then at home when my child needs me? No …I want to be here," I told her she looked down ashamed of herself and I cupped her face slowly making her look at me. "You are great Cassie; you are Smart, beautiful and sly." I said, she smiled she had always liked knowing she was sly. Her smile soon went away though.
"No I'm not, I'm tainted," she said. If I could cry I would have. I kissed her forehead and walked out of the room.
"Mom…Mom, I'm sorry, please don't be mad," I heard her call after me."You're so stupid Cass really messed up in the goddamn head."
When I got into the living room everyone looked t me. I just shook my head and walked up to my room. I knew my mom was following me and I didn't care. How could she think she was tainted? How could she even think like that about herself? I went into my bedroom and I heard my mom close the doors. I sat on my bed and just sobbed.
"What happened?" my mom asked worriedly.
"Cassie believes she is tainted," I stated and sobbed more than I think I ever have including the time Edward left me.
"Oh Bella, she's just trying to deal with everything. I'm sure she doesn't mean it. Bella dear she is going to be okay. She'll get better in time," my mom said and all I could do was sob into her. Would she get better? Would Cassie really get better or was this just the last straw that has made her tip over the edge?